![]() ![]() ![]() One of the passengers, pilot Brian Engle (David Morse), commandeers the plane and lands the group in Bangor, Maine, only for them to discover that there's no one on the ground either. The Langoliers follows a group of ten passengers aboard a Red Eye flight from Los Angeles to Boston who awaken to discover everyone else aboard has vanished. With the advance of filmmaking techniques since its first adaptation, particularly with respect to CGI The Langoliers should be the next Stephen King book to be up for the reboot treatment, either in film or mini-series form. As the Master of Horror, King crafted a very unnerving and creepy story in The Langoliers, along with creating a very tortured villain. Due to the limitations in technology at the time, The Langoliers was held back on a technical level from the potency of King's novella. In fact, The Langoliers would also benefit from a reboot in another way. ![]() RELATED: Stephen King: What Went Wrong With The Dark Tower Movie While adaptations of Stephen King novels have always been popular, the current wave suggests The Langoliers' time has come for a modern re-telling. Others, like Doctor Sleep, have acted as continuations of older Stephen King movies, The Shining in Doctor Sleep's case. Several, such as the IT films and The Stand mini-series are reboots of previous King adaptations. Fast-forward to the 21st century, and there's been a major resurgence of Stephen King adaptations on the big and small screens. ![]()
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